The anti viruses I have tried are AVG free as well as pc gaurd and bulldog (which was a free trail) and I like the ease of use that you get with mc afee.
I accept your point and fully understand what you are saying about the bridge and why allowing Mc Afee full access will create a back door for viruses to get in by hi jacking the anti virus, but what about a virus that has just been designed to get around the patch gaurd which MS say is designed to stop applications getting into the kernels which norton have said they have already hacked. If there is a virus that can access the kernels in this way without going via the antvirus how can it be removed by the anti virus if MS will create a patch that will cause a blue screen if the pc owner installed it?
Also if it is such a major security problem then why don't Mc Afee and Norton change their anti viruses?